Article: Photographic Impressionism.(image manipulation in photography)

The word "impressionism" conjures up a brightly colored, modestly sized picture of a light-filled landscape or cityscape painted with broken brash work. The Oxford dictionary defines impressionism as "a style or movement in art (music, etc.) concerned with expression of feeling, rather than accurate depiction or systematic structure. "When I look at reproductions of impressionist paintings, the common thread seems to be an absence of distinctly clear lines; the distinction between subject and background is diffused resulting in a substantial departure from realism. In conventional photography realism is the norm. The objective of the photographer is usually to obtain an ...

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